Business Architect - Compensation

BOOTS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to ,

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced parental leave pay

Employee Assistance Programme (TELUS)

Job summary

Boots is seeking a Business Architect to support the People Transformation programme, focusing on compensation processes and future state design. You will work with the Compensation Workstream Lead and a network of stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives and deliverables.

You will input into change impacts, operating models, and testing, helping to embed new technology and ways of working across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Must understand reward processes in HR and compensation workstreams.
• Ability to balance high-level strategy with granular design decisions.
• Detail-oriented with a user experience focus in process design.
• Excellent communication across multiple stakeholders and teams.
• Proactive challenger of status quo to improve processes.
• Able to operate under tight deadlines and manage multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Compensation Workstream Lead to ensure processes meet requirements.
• Support design decisions and maintain integrity within the design.
• Participate in workshops to identify needs and opportunities for efficiency.
• Document future state processes and contribute to design workbooks.
• Engage with Process Owner network to communicate potential impacts of the programme.

Skills

Knowledge of Reward processes

Big picture to detail

Detail-oriented UX focus

Communication & collaboration

Critical thinking

Deadline-driven

Tools

BPMN

Job description

Contract: Full-time, Fixed Term Contract, 18 Months

We're embarking on an HR Transformation journey, modernising our technology to create a simpler, more seamless experience across Boots. Through our People Transformation programme, we'll improve our ways of working to make it easier to support colleagues through key moments in their careers while enabling better access to information and more effective support across the business.

This is an exciting time to join us. You'll play a key part in delivering meaningful change that will benefit over 50,000 colleagues across Boots, helping to embed new technology and ways of working that will support our colleagues and the business for years to come.

This is a key role in ensuring successful delivery of the People Transformation programme. Forming part of the Business Architecture network across the programme, this role ensures that the processes for the Compensation workstream are designed and aligned to business objectives and deliver against the functional requirements. The role will input into and capture future state process design enabling the People Function teams to deliver efficiently.

You will work with internal and external stakeholders across the People Transformation programme, including inputting into change impacts, operational model design, and testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Compensation Workstream Lead and broader Business Architect network to ensure business processes meet requirements.
• Support the Workstream Lead with process design decisions, ensuring integrity within the design.
• Participate in design workshops to identify business needs and opportunities for process efficiencies.
• Document future state processes and contribute to design configuration workbooks.
• Engage with the wider Process Owner network to ensure awareness of potential impacts of the programme.

What You'll Need to Have (Our Must-Haves)

• Knowledge of Reward processes.
• Ability to navigate between big picture and small detail throughout the project.
• Detail-oriented with a user experience focus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Critical thinker, willing to challenge for process improvement.
• Ability to operate under tight deadlines.

It Would Be Great If You Also Have

• Experience in BPMN or previous process mapping.

Where Your Brilliance Can Take You

At Boots, we believe in your potential. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career within a supportive environment that values your contributions.

Rewards Designed for You

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 12% company contribution)
• Generous employee discounts for you and a family member
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

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A Bit About Us

At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported, and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.